Intel opens Vietnamese testing facility

Intel has announced the opening of a new testing facility in Vietnam, its biggest anywhere in the world.

Intel is expanding its facilities world-wide, announcing the opening of its biggest ever chip testing facility in Vietnam at a cost of $1 billion.

The facility, located in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City, measure 46,000 square meters, making it the company's biggest testing and assembly facility anywhere in the world, comes just days after the company opened a 300mm fabrication plant in Dalian, China that cost $2.5 billion to build.

The new Vietnamese facility will be used to test and package chips produced elsewhere for markets world-wide, with Intel claiming that it will create 'thousands' of new jobs in the area.

The investment in both the Chinese and Vietnamese facilities by Intel, both of which started life back in 2007 before opening their doors officially this week, marks some of Intel's most major facilities investment in recent years.

Originally Posted by OptimaximalPeople, we're missing the real question here...

Why are they testing these things on the Vietnamese?!

Despite the humorous intent, it's a good question.

Why Vietnam?

Answer: price

So far China has been the high-tech center and Vietnam and Malaysia have been the cheap places to manufacture, but were not thought of as being capable of this quality of work. Intel's trying to see if they can develop the technical capability so that in the future they can move more of their production to Vietnam to take advantage of the cheaper labor costs.

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